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    Lonesome Hearts
    Lonesome Hearts
    Lonesome Hearts
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    Lonesome Hearts

    By Zach Mountford

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    Love, loss and longing are feelings we all share. In this collection of short stories we explore how different lives have so much in common and that the human experience is something so dynamic and beautiful yet different for everyone.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherZach Mountford
    Release dateAug 6, 2013
    ISBN9781301223978
    Lonesome Hearts
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    Zach Mountford

    Zach Mountford was born in Georgia, raised in Florida and North Carolina. With an early interest in books and writing, he graduation from the University of North Carolina Wilmington with a degree in Creative Writing in 2006, after which he traveled between New York, Europe, Key West and the Dominican Republic exploring and soaking up inspiration for his work. Having worked as a copy writer, film production assistant, framer, roofer, real estate agent, plumber and farmer he found that,"Fiction is the only true thing left." His first novel, Warriors of the Third World , was recently published as an eBook; he's also published works in Topsail Magazine and Atlantis as well as copy for radio, television and print for several well known companies. Lonesome Hearts is a collection of short fiction written between 2003 and 2012 and is also now available. "We're all trying to find that thing, that one unnameable thing that drives all of us that we search for, hone our skills and build for our entire lives. We look within, we look to others, we look everywhere with no real compass to go by besides our hearts and minds. Those that are lucky to find it often fare worse than those that never do." He Currently lives in Wilmington, North Carolina where he works as an Entrepreneur, Construction Consultant and a small scale farmer raising pigs, chickens and cows. He continues work on his 2nd (Port City Republic) and 3rd (The Southern Smugglers) novels.

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